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iftekhar uddin
4,194 PointsHow to get rid of the bottom black bar in Android Studio Design Preview
Description of the problem:
While doing the android studio course i'll come across instructions like "now put your button at the bottom left hand corner." and they will continue to put it at the very bottom left.
When I try to do it, my button is put at the very bottom left (as indicated by the green lines along the phone that get highlighted) but it is covered up by the black bar.
When I run it in the emulator it looks fine. If I move the button so it looks ok on the preview, it is too high in the emulator.
Question: How do I get rid of this black bar or at least change something to fix this issue? I have looked all over the internet and I have found nothing useful.
(Every answer is from 2013 and tells me "there's nothing you can do." Normally I would accept this but this isn't something trivial. It prevents me from properly seeing and editing my app.